predestine
verb (used with object)
to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine.
had predestined
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past perfectof predestine.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For decades, historians had insisted that the country’s abnormal path to modernity had predestined it for the catastrophe of National Socialism.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2017
The man who has directed these sweeping changes in the two years since Elijah Muhammad's death is his son, Wallace D. Muhammad, 43, whom Fard had predestined as leader before he was even born.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for myself, God, whose name be exalted, spared me on account of the trouble and torment and affliction that He had predestined to befall me.
From The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales by Maxfield Parrish
Nature had predestined the two men to mutual antipathy.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan
Willingly or unwillingly, fate had predestined him to keep Fat Abraham's shop.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
